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St. Augustine, FL
The oldest masonry fortification in the continental United States, built by Spain to defend St. Augustine and its Atlantic approaches.
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Boston, MA
Boston’s historic market and meeting hall has served for nearly three centuries as a stage for debates over liberty, abolition, suffrage, labor, and civic life.
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Robeline, LA
A tribal cultural center and museum in the Adai Caddo homeland where visitors can learn about the community's enduring history, traditions, artifacts, and ceremonial life.
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Duxbury, MA
A National Historic Landmark in Duxbury preserving the Alden family homestead, archaeological remains, and the legacy of Mayflower passengers John and Priscilla Alden.
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Yorktown, VA
A museum and living-history site in Yorktown exploring the American Revolution through artifacts, immersive galleries, films, a Continental Army camp, and an 18th-century farm.
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Chatham, MA
A preserved 1752 sea captain’s home and expanded museum campus interpreting centuries of Chatham and Cape Cod history.
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St. Simons Island, GA
A compact battlefield overlook marking the 1742 clash that helped end Spain's attempt to seize the British colony of Georgia.
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Lewes, DE
An 18th-century Lewes landmark scarred by the War of 1812 bombardment and now devoted to the town's maritime heritage.
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Virginia Beach, VA
A National Park Service memorial in Virginia Beach marking the English colonists' 1607 first landing and interpreting the 1781 Battle of the Capes.
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New Orleans, LA
New Orleans’ historic Catholic cathedral on Jackson Square, rooted in the city’s 18th-century colonial era and still active as a place of worship.
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St. Augustine, FL
An immersive living-history attraction that brings St. Augustine's centuries of Spanish and British colonial life to life through demonstrations and reconstructed settings.
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Essex, MA
A working maritime museum on a historic Essex River shipyard that preserves the town’s renowned wooden shipbuilding tradition.
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St. Simons Island, GA
Ruins of an 18th-century British military town and fort that helped secure colonial Georgia against Spanish expansion from Florida.
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Darien, GA
A reconstructed 1721 British frontier fort on the Altamaha River interpreting early colonial rivalry, Indigenous and European encounters, and the origins of Darien.
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St. Augustine, FL
A preserved Spanish coquina watchtower reached by ferry that guarded St. Augustine's vulnerable southern water approach.
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Natchitoches, LA
A carefully researched reconstruction of the French colonial fort that protected Natchitoches and anchored trade on the contested frontier between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas.
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Framingham, MA
A three-building historic campus on Framingham Centre Common preserving more than four centuries of community history.
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New York, NY
A Revolutionary-era museum inside the historic tavern where George Washington bade farewell to his officers in 1783.
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